| A first guess at decomposing the spiral might be discouraging: the piece on the far right is followed by a smaller copy which is followed by a smaller copy, and so on. |
| Viewed this way, the spiral is made of dozens, maybe hundreds (in fact, infinitely many, if we think of the image as a pixilated version of a mathematical fractal) of smaller copies of itself. |
| Sometimes the most obvious way to decompose a fractal does not lead to an IFS with the smallest number of rules. |
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| Several possible pieces of a decomposition |
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